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The Continental in Las Vegas and Australia has an interesting coupon policy. This casino distributes 3-2 lucky bucks for blackjack and craps in its fun book, but here you can use them over and over until you lose a bet. Most coupons are good for one use only: you put up the coupon and win or lose, that's the end of that. But with a coupon at the Continental, if you hit a winning streak, you can keep playing the coupon hand after hand. That's happened to us and we've won as much as $40 on one coupon there. (We didn't know about this replay policy until it happened to us.)
Another kind of lucky buck is called "match play." This is a coupon that doubles your payoff on even-money winners. Bet $10 of your own money in cash or chips along with a match play coupon. If you lose the hand, your $10 and the coupon are taken. If you win, you get paid $10 for your bet and an additional $10 for the coupon.

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Match play is also worth a little less than half the face value of the coupon. A particular Las Vegas casino gives you $5 match play coupons for each game-roulette, craps, and blackjack. With a set of coupons for each of us, worth about $14 ($30 in coupons divided by two minus the house edge), it makes our daily walk to this casino quite worthwhile. One time we had umpteen sets of these coupons (thanks to our housekeeper) and the rules allowed us to use four sets per day. We didn't have a car at the time, but we didn't mind taking the round-trip (free) shuttle ride. We'll take two hours out of any day to collect our expected $56 in "pay."
Casinos aren't the only ones who hand out unhooks. When you travel to gambling destinations on air-room package deals, you'll usually be given special fun books with coupons from many different casinos for food, merchandise, and gambling bonuses. Sometimes they're provided with your airfare; other times you pay a small fee ($20-$25) for an especially valuable coupon package. We buy these from our travel agent when we book our flight if we know they're worth more than they cost. Sometimes a travel agent will give you extra free fun books if you ask.
Of course, the ultimate is getting the valuable travel -company coupons without paying for them from the maid. I cover befriending housekeepers in the "Long-Term", but it deserves emphasis. I have maids all over the place collecting unused coupon books that are left in rooms. I give the maids big tips-$10 or $20. And why not? I take these coupons and run them up to hundreds of dollars. This is a virtual gold mine.

Gambling Books with Coupons

Sometimes when you buy a casino, lottery california gambling book, it'll have coupons in it. The American Casino Guide by Steve Bourie comes out once a year and has coupons in the back. It's published in Florida, so it has lots of deals from Mississippi. When you subscribe to Casino Player magazine, a bunch of coupons come with the deal, some for Vegas, some for the Caribbean, most for Atlantic City. Of course, the mother of all coupon books is the one you get when you subscribe to the Las Vegas Advisor. All the coupons are for Las Vegas casinos.
In 1997, you got $30 in slot and video poker tokens at the Four Queens, 50% off a gourmet dinner at the Fremont, 2-for-1 or free rooms (selected dates) at five different casinos, 2-for-1 shows, buffets, and comedy, 20% off rental cars, match play and game bonuses, including a big $1,000 bonus on a royal flush at the Continental. If you use just two of the better coupons, you'll more than pay for the $50 subscription fee. It works out to getting the other 50 or 60 coupons and 12 issues of the newsletter for free. The newsletter isn't only valuable for its information; it also gives you a vicarious Las Vegas experience. Every month a little breath of Las Vegas air shows up in your mailbox.